St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-05-28
A Few Spring Snakes.

Josh Bailey, of Brookville, is evidently
the boss snake-catcher of Florida. He
was lounging in hammock one hot
noise warned him that rattleSnake
was near by and ready for business.
Mr.. Bailey tumbled out OF the hammock
just in time to avoid the reptile'S spring,
but recovered himself quickly and
caught the snake by the neck while it
was still in mid air. Then he took the
vicious reptile back 10 the WoodShed.
and laying its head Oh block chopped
it off with a Ratchet. The snake was
~ feet long and nearly 10 inches in cir
cumference. 1t struggled desperately
while in Mr.. Bailey'S grasp. and wind
ing its coils around his arm almost
crushed it.
Sheriff Roberts. of Hart county, Geor-
gia, was awakened from sound sleep
the other night by the ctammy touch OF
huge snake, which crawled directly
over his face. The reptiles belly felt
like big ieiele, according to the sher-
ifs account OF the incident. and seemed
to take at least an hour iii passing.
Finally, to his great relief. the reptile
drew its Shiny length away, and the
sheriff struck flight and tried to find it.
But the snake Lad disappeared, and.
after few minutes search, Mr.. Rob
erts went back to bed. In the morning
the servant. while making the bed,
found a.chickcp 6nake,a six feet long,
coiled up between the feather bed and
the mattress.
THE henrGOSt OF j. 3. Jackson, of
La Grange, Ga, has been pretty well
cleaned out by snakes this spring, and
recently he caught one Of the thieves
Willie in the act of graSping a fat hen
around the neck and killed it. Two
days afterwards the hen laid an un-
usually big egg, Oh which was outlined
in red Il perfect representation of Il
snake selling a chicken.
A Belmont, H., man while digging a
we'll last week unearthed snake which
was found to be eleven feet long and
had six legs. two small horns on its
head, forked tail and only one eye,
but that terrible enough to make up for
several. This pretty reptile proved to
be very vicious, but it was caught at
last and is now on exhibition i'll box at
the corner grocery.
Capt. Jack Bridges, Of Columbus, O.,
bought home with him from hunting
trip in Mexico last week RATHER which
beats anything Of the kind ever seen in
Ohio. 1t is twelve feet long. has twenty
six rattleS and button. and is calculated
TO De aDle TO spring seventeen 1eet. Inc
captain says he bagged it near Chihua-
hua while hunting for other game.
Fletch Norris, of MonteZuma, Ga.
burned a brush heap down in his swamp
near the river not long ago, and threw
into the pile good-sized moccasin,
which his boys had captured
that afternoon. A week after
wards he visited the spot with
his dog and saw wriggling about in the
dead ashes the head and few inches of
the neck of the snake, and its body had
burned to crisp and broken off. The
dog started in to have fun with the re-
mains of the reptile, but was bitten Oh
the paw and gave it up.
A Pennsylvania farmer removed a
stump from a field recently, and took
from root which he thought was lot
of knotted rope. After the supposed
rope had lain in the sun awhile the
farmer discovered that it was mass of
cOpperhead snakes twisted and inter-
laced together, with the heads outward
They Missed and squirmed in a horrible
manner. Just then the farmers hired
man came along, and with couple of
good clubs they succeeded in dispatch
ing nearly two hundred serpentS.